NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Observations of Interstellar Matter
WEBJun 6, 2013 · The new measurements give clues about how and where our solar system formed, the forces that physically shape our solar system, and the history of other stars in the Milky Way. The Earth-orbiting spacecraft observed four separate types of atoms including hydrogen, oxygen, neon and helium.
Inside NASA's monthslong effort to rescue the Voyager 1 mission - NBC News
WEBApr 26, 2024 · Inside NASA's 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space. The Voyager 1 probe is the most distant human-made object in existence. After a major effort to restore ...
Voyager 1’s Immortal Interstellar Requiem - Scientific American
WEBMar 14, 2024 · NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion miles to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe—but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever. By Nadia Drake. An artist's concept ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space - NASA
WEBDec 10, 2018 · For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun.
NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get updates 12 billion miles …
WEBOct 23, 2023 · One update, a software fix, ought to tend to the corrupted data that Voyager 1 began transmitting last year, and another set aims to prevent gunk from building up in both spacecraft's thrusters ...
Interstellar probe: A mission for the generations - BBC
WEBVoyagers 1 and 2 made history in the 2010s when they left the bubble of hot gas that surrounds our Sun, its so-called heliosphere, and entered the interstellar medium - the region of space...
Interstellar shocks unveil the material around new stars - Nature
WEBOct 2, 2023 · Astronomers have obtained spectacular images of an interstellar jet launched from a newly forming star. Careful comparison with archival data offers a fresh take on the chemistry of the...
NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey into Interstellar …
WEBSep 12, 2013 · NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars.
NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar …
WEBSep 12, 2013 · PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
Solar System's First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists
WEBNov 20, 2017 · New data reveal first detected interstellar object to be a rocky, and up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide.